ABOUT
Dan Lieberman is an award-winning investigative journalist with a unique eye for finding and telling underreported stories around the world. His in-depth news documentaries aim to expose injustice and promote policy debate & social change.
He currently reports for Hearst Television’s national weekly show, “Matter of Fact” hosted by Soledad O’Brien.
Dan’s work on the drug epidemic, immigration and criminal justice reform has taken him around the U.S., Europe and Latin America. As a Correspondent for NBC News and Quibi’s “Weekend Report,” he reported on every aspect of the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 election.
At NowThis News, his reporting on school inequality and segregation in a rural Louisiana school district triggered federal court action and won a “Shorty Award” for racial equality. Dan also covered the plight of homeless college students in California, shining a light on the national housing crisis and the rising costs of a college degree.
Dan served as a Digital Correspondent for CNN from 2016-18, covering the on-the-ground policy impact of the Trump presidency. He interviewed MS-13 gang members and their victims who said Trump’s anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies emboldened the gang and helped them recruit new members. Dan also reported on how companies in the rust belt turned to refugees to help fill jobs amidst the drug epidemic.
As part of a special report on hate speech on college campuses, he interviewed the controversial far-right provocateur, Milo Yiannopoulos, in the weeks leading up to the University of California, Berkeley riot in 2017.
Dan also produced a 22-minute documentary about prison reform and how one state in the U.S. has been transforming their prisons to look more like those in Norway in an effort to reduce recidivism and prison population count.
From 2013-16, he was an Anchor and Special Correspondent for Fusion TV and spent two years reporting on the heroin trail, traveling between Colombia and Vermont culminating in an hour-long documentary that aired on Fusion and ABC News “Nightline”. In 2015, as a record number of unaccompanied minors arrived at the U.S. border, Dan traveled to San Pedro Sula Honduras, where the greatest number of children were fleeing from. Both reports were nominated as Livingston Awards finalists.
For Nightline, Dan also reported on the controversial use of solitary confinement in America’s prison system, as well as the effect of pilot fatigue on American airline safety.
He graduated from McGill University in Montreal and completed a Master’s degree in journalism at Columbia University as a Stabile Center Investigative Fellow.
When Dan is not in the field reporting, he is working on a home construction project in upstate New York with his wife and is actively involved in animal rescue.